"First, we will introduce the international Catholic communication associations OCIC and UNDA through a short history of both organisations, exploring the activities they deployed, the most important developments during their 73-year existence, and look into their relations with the Church, organise
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d laity and the broader field of local, national, international, and intergovernmental (media) organisations. In the second part of this report, we will introduce the OCIC-UNDA archives through a short history of the archives’ management and a detailed institutional history of the organisations that shaped them. Taking this into account, we will then analyse their structure, content and lacunas and evaluate their state of preservation. We will also provide an overview of the reference library’s contents with special attention to publications of OCIC, UNDA and their predecessors." (Introduction)
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"We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Irish heritage. He grew up as a Catholic in a pre-Vatican II Church. His call was to a religious congregation from the late 1950s and to priesthood from
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the mid-1960s. For many years he worked in religious formation in his congregation and taught theology and Old Testaments Studies, as part of the Melbourne College of Divinity. But, in different ways throughout the years, there was always the cinema strand, reviewing, writing, seminars and heading up the Catholic Church's international cinema organisation and then SIGNIS, The World Catholic Association for Communication." (Back cover)
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"In 1998 at the Montreal assemblies of UNDA, the World Catholic Organization for Radio and Television, and OCIC, the International Catholic Organization for Cinema, the two associations agreed to merge. The merger was achieved in just over three years. This book gives an account of the merger proces
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s using reports written at the time and minutes of meetings. With the vote for SIGNIS in Rome in November 2001, the new World Catholic Association for Communication was inaugurated. This book gives a history of the Organization for its first two terms as we celebrate 80 years of its predecessors OCIC and UNDA. Special contributions come from the last President of UNDA, Angela Ann Zukowski MHSH, Robert Molhant, past Secretary General of OCIC and SIGNIS, Peter Thomas, past Vice President of UNDA and present Vice President of SIGNIS, Bernardo Suate, director of the Rome Services, Guido Convents, Cinema Desk, SIGNIS, and Jim McDonnell, SIGNIS England and Advocacy Desk." (Signis Media 4/2009)
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